HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

Lecture 25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"


Listen Later



This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in brining about the end of Reconstruction. Professor Blight begins with an account the Colfax Massacre. Colfax, Louisiana was the sight of the largest mass murder in U.S. history, when a white mob killed dozens of African Americans in the April of 1873. Two Supreme Court decisions would do in the judicial realm what the Colfax Massacre had done in the political. On the same day as the Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court offered a narrow reading of the 14th Amendment in the Slaughterhouse cases, signaling a judicial retreat from the radicalism of the early Reconstruction years. The Cruikshank case, two years later, would overturn the convictions of the only three men sentenced for their involvement in Colfax, and marked another step away from reconstruction. Professor Blight concludes with the Panic of 1873 and the seemingly innumerable political scandals of the Grant Administration, suggesting the manner in which these events encouraged northerners to tire of the Reconstruction experiment by the early 1870s.

Transcript

Lecture Page
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877By Open Yale Courses - David Blight

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

417 ratings


More shows like HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877

View all
On the Media by WNYC Studios

On the Media

9,184 Listeners

In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time

5,454 Listeners

Radiolab by WNYC Studios

Radiolab

44,030 Listeners

This American Life by This American Life

This American Life

90,381 Listeners

Fresh Air by NPR

Fresh Air

37,923 Listeners

99% Invisible by Roman Mars

99% Invisible

26,227 Listeners

Lectures in History by C-SPAN

Lectures in History

740 Listeners

The Civil War & Reconstruction by Richard Youngdahl

The Civil War & Reconstruction

4,688 Listeners

Revolutions by Mike Duncan

Revolutions

13,372 Listeners

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford by Pushkin Industries

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

5,098 Listeners

The Ancients by History Hit

The Ancients

3,067 Listeners

The Rest Is History by Goalhanger

The Rest Is History

13,394 Listeners

Gone Medieval by History Hit

Gone Medieval

1,787 Listeners

American History Hit by History Hit

American History Hit

1,448 Listeners